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This section consists of documents either by the Red Army Faction, by former RAF members, prisoners from the RAF, or others who were “in the milieu”. Unless otherwise indicated, they have all been translated by André Moncourt and J. Smith.……… Read the rest

Ron Augustin, former RAF member
(Talk at the University of Amsterdam, June 2016)
In every epoch, the attempt must be made to deliver tradition anew from the conformism which is on the point of overwhelming it.
—Walter Benjamin
The RAF’s history spans a period of thirty years.……… Read the rest

The interview was conducted by Rüdiger Göbel, Peter Rau, Wera Tichter, and Gerd Schumann.
junge Welt: The media has squeezed everything possible out of the 2007 anniversary of the “German Autumn.” The events of 1977 came to a bitter end. The way it is being depicted on TV, on the radio, and in the print media constitutes a sort of hysterical coming to terms with the Red Army Faction (RAF): The Stammheim Night (Spiegel), a series; The Terror Years (Die Zeit), a special issue; The Bourgeois Children’s War, a primetime ARD documentary.……… Read the rest

First published in junge Welt on January 15, 2007; republished in Spiegel 9/2007; February 26, 2007 (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,468710,00.html).
Dear Friends,
The theme of this year’s Rosa Luxemburg Congress, “Things Can Be Different,” means – to my understanding – critically assessing the inspiring developments in a number of Latin American countries of late. ……… Read the rest

The following interview with Helmut Pohl was originally published as “RAF bestätigt Ausbildung an Waffen in der DDR; Helmut Pohl dementiert Spionage im Auftrag der Stasi” in the July 7, 1991, Frankfurter Rundschau. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall had fallen, and soon afterwards the entire GDR was annexed by the FRG.……… Read the rest

[This article was published is New Studies on the Left, Vol. XIV, Nos. 1 & 2 (1989). The author, Michael Ryan, wrote it after a period of living in West Germany in the mid-eighties.]
On May 4, 1988 Julio Rosado, a member of the Moviemiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN), spoke in Montréal, addressing the topic Resistance and Repression in Puerto Rico. ……… Read the rest

At the time this statement was issued, Peter-Jürgen Boock had never been more popular with the liberal intelligentsia. In 1985 former SDS leader Peter Schneider coauthored a book with him examining the armed experience; the next year, following a legal appeal backed by many progressives, his sentence was reduced to a single life term.……… Read the rest

In the Front Paper we state that the revolutionary strategy is the strategy against their strategy. With this we have proceeded forcefully, basing ourselves on our own situation, and on that which has characterized it since ’77: the military offensive from which imperialism hopes to emerge as a world system.……… Read the rest

We have to talk about ’77 again here, specifically about the political strategy behind the first phase of armed struggle in which the attacks occurred and how new conditions for revolutionary politics developed out of this conflict. We also have to say a few things about what happened when we took Schleyer captive and demanded the prisoners in exchange for him.……… Read the rest

We are going to discuss what we have learned in recent years, and what we want to do as a result. What we have to say will, of course, be general in nature.
We believe that it is now possible and necessary for the revolutionary strategy to enter a new stage in the imperialist centers.……… Read the rest